Short Negotiated Poems

Neighbor,
A miracle you are
Your democratic smiles
Expel my courage
Whenever you scatter them on me
Could you stop without negotiated conditions
I want peace!...

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Unconfounded by a doltish lack
of general public adoration,
our poetry we'll offer here --
and bend each other's hungry ears
in supportive, negotiated pacts
of (mostly) mutual appreciation....

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Buying a Goat


How I negotiated for its slaughter
Was not a matter for plain laughter
Haggling, it chanced a sire activity,	
Last before the fatalistic disability!
He is charging more than whole,
Maybe he is selling me the sire role!


JM

2nd February 2014...

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I want a peaceful world
Where Hindus are at peace with Muslims
Where Palestine and Israel fight not
Where every race is respected
Where language is not a barrier
Where the rich helps the poor
Where money is not the final say

I want a peaceful world
Where truth rules
Where justice is granted
Where violence is negotiated
Where Rivals forgive
Where sinners repent
Where all humans love peace...

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I would strip and forever erase the armour of my soul and place the naked and 
fragile remains of all that I am in your trust to hold and keep safe, and in return I 
ask for a two second lock of eyes. I would feel as though I had just negotiated 
history's most gratifying deal, my thoughts as I write this have searched and 
received your spent static; my skin is stretching alive with goose bumps as though 
your touch is imminent....

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Yesterday, yes; yester-day
A poem paid me a brief visit
It was the greatest poem that man ever wrote and read
Greater than Desiderata and The Path Not Taken


It’d have made you cry and laugh in painful pleasure
It’d have negotiated with my gnawing poverty
It’d have endeared me to my future mother of our children
It’d have fetched me modest and kind In-laws


Off it flew!
And left me with vague shadows
Of skeletal memories...

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School is a super market
the proprietor hires the premises
prepares parking yard for customers
pays exorbitantly in taxes
goods are labeled with prices
customers pick the affordable
no negotiated interactions
sales executives guide and monitor
guards check out security
ensuring no cheating
preventing any shop-lifting
rich clients eat from restaurants
the rest go hungry, thirsty
what customers carry home
is not the concern of proprietors
money must speak...

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concerned about being upstaged
the glorious blue tinted rock
negotiated 
sent in the puffy white wisps 
to cover the vibrant coloured evergreens

the brown field in the foreground
felt offended
wondering out loud 
"what about me?"
then added "beauty you know is..."
but never bothered to finish the cliché.

for my part
i was more interested
in what the mountain had traded the clouds
what could it possibly have offered?


September 23 2016  ...

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Given in appreciation
but taken away on request
translated to foreign land
but asked to surrender everything
employed to serve unknown guests
but asked to behave brainlessly
taken for a tour as personal effect
but chained for whims of tourism

Today young girls of the world
are chattels of people’s wishes

They are dustbin of weird whims
hijacked, negotiated, looted, lied to
are groundnut paste of pleasure
nothing in this world they are 
but chattels, empty scraps!...

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